Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-04-27

YOU this land I slipped few shil-
iings into her HANDY in exchange for
the glasses"
"Oh thanks thanks"
Well, got away by myself to
think. I had seen that man some.
where. Where was it? I began and
followed my work all over in my
mind, but I could not locate him.
It was midnight, and I was fifty
miles away, when I suddenly placed
him. He was one of the jurors at
the coroner's inquest.
Next day was back in the village
where the murder had occurred.
The spectacles were identified by
several of the neighbors, and when l
came to make some cautious In
quiries about the man I found him
to be a worthless sort Of fellow, living
a mile out Of town and making a
poor living for himself and family
by doing odd jobs.
went alone to arrest him. 1 call
ed at his house in the evening, un-
der the pretense of engaging his
services, and as he sat by his own
fireside, surrounded by his wife and
children, / told him who I was and
charged him with the crime. He
dropped like a weed in the sun as
he comprehended what my words
meant, but his wife was made of diff
ferent stuff. An ak stood in corner
of the room, and she seized it and
tried to split my head open.
/ had just all I could do to put the
handouts on her and then she turned
on her shivering husband and re-
viled him until he stopped his ears
to shut out her voice. He turned
out to be a weak-minded fellow, and
it was plainly shown that she not
only put him up to the job, but went
with him to execute it.
While he was searching for the
money she packed up the other ar
ticles, even taking hair-brushes,
combs and towels. She had made
him appear at the inquest, and he
had come through itall unsupported.
While it was a clear case for the
hangman some quibble of law saved
their necks, and both are serving
long sentences in prison.
The detectives Of fiction, it is curl:
Gus to notice, are invariably caused
to depend upon chance, but then
there could be no story If the detec-
tive had only to arrest the evil-doer.
A big robbery had been commit
ted from the house of a wealthy
gentleman outside Paris. He paid to
have two special detectives sent up
to investigate the matter and hunt
up the thief, and further declared
he would handsomely reward the
officer who was successful.
Thele was absolutely no clue to
work upon. Nothing belonging to
the thief had been left behind, no
one had seen him or a suspicious per-
son, and the gentleman suspected
none of his servants. But this lat
ter did not debar the detectives from
cross examining them.
Detective B. arrived at his en-
ployee's house in a storm. That was
a thousand pities, however, as it was
raining hard, perhaps the servant
would have no objections to his stay
ing in the library short time.
"Certainly not; would monsieur
walk this way?"
ga fine collection of books" said
B. "Your master uses them great
deal, of course ?"
30, yes; a great deal. All except
those in that case. He, never uses
those, nor will he allow others to
touch them."
"Thanks!" said B., and taking
book from off the table, sat down.
He read a few pages, found them
dry, threw the book down, and stand
ing up, commenced to read the titles
on the various shelves. Coming to
the glass case he found they were
large uniform volumes with titles in
some foreign language. Curiosity
getting the better of his discretion,
he opened the door and endeavored
to pull down volume. Endeavor-
ed, we repeat, because they were
not books at all, simply cardboard
imitation. With a smile at the de-
ception, he was about to close the
door when it occurred to him to test
the others. Standing upon chair
he reached up his hand, tested each
and at the same time the glitter OF
something bright caught his eye on
the shelves below. Getting off the
chair he:pulled out the bottom shelf.
There was portion of the missing
plate! The shelf above revealed the
remainder.
The question arose, "How did 1t
get there ?" He began a-thinking.
He replaced the shelves, rang the
bell and said to the domestic. "Are
you sure that your master would
object to my looking at these book ?"
"Yes, sir; certain"
"Oh; but surely not. However.
should he ever ask you did any one
touch. them tell him it was Monsieur
b." and striding in the direction of
the case opened the door.
The servant made rush to pre-
vent him. B. made pretense of re-
sisting her until convinced at last
that she knew of the existence of the
blank books, and that she had hid
den the plate behind them, meaning,
no doubt, when its loss had blown
over to remove it, he pulled the case
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